Daniel Pink has a great sense of humor and is a really funny guy! I greatly enjoyed watching him talk to these people in the seminar and teach them about his ideas and his lengthy research is facinating. I would have never even thought about these things and I guess I would have been in the crowd that is left behind. Most of the things he said are also in the book but it was a great experience to listen to the emotion in his voice so that I can literally hear him in my mind while I am reading.
One of the main points that I really agree with is that you must be intrinsically motivated in your job so that you can have meaning and significance in your life. Many people look for rewards on the outside that leave their life empty because they are just things that sit there in your cabinet and do not truely satisfy what you want. You need to be able to set goals for YOURSELF and once they are reached allow that to be enough of a reward for you. Enough of a prize because you don't need a trophy, which is just an empty cup anyways, to sit up on your mantle. What significance did that really bring to your life?? Or grades, who really is satisfied by their grades? Most students have pressure from their parents to do well in school and get good grades and they are not intrinsically motivated so it creates no meaning in their lives, no satisfaction.
One thing I learned is the three things that make a good speech:
1. Brevity (keep it brief)
2. Levity (don't stress things so much that you freek out your audience)
3. Repitition (repeating things often helps people remember them better)
He also stated that if a picture is worth a thousand words, a metaphor is worth a thousand pictures. The metaphore that he gave to us was that the brain is divided into two halves. One on the right and one on the left. Both are used in all aspects of life but it is only that one side is used more than the other one in certain situations. All parts of the brain work together but, one is used more prominentally than the others in that situation.
Daniel talks about how right brainers will rule the future. That does not mean that the left brain skills will no longer be necessary, as he says, but they will no longer be sufficient. We need to develop and exercise our left brains because they have not been utilized to the best of their abilty for so long that they have almost atrophied and need to be limbered up!
He also made a great point of how Americans have gotten wealthier but have gotten no happier and are now on a search for meaning by doing things such as yoga and meditation.
Over all it was a great seminar to watch and it helped give me a brief of the book before I really dug into it and go started. It was a good summary for preparation before I read the whole book.
Daniel Pink reminds me of a deeply intelectual scientist with a great sense of humor! How many times in history has that happened I wonder??
Daniel Pink has a great sense of humor and is a really funny guy! I greatly enjoyed watching him talk to these people in the seminar and teach them about his ideas and his lengthy research is facinating. I would have never even thought about these things and I guess I would have been in the crowd that is left behind. Most of the things he said are also in the book but it was a great experience to listen to the emotion in his voice so that I can literally hear him in my mind while I am reading.
One of the main points that I really agree with is that you must be intrinsically motivated in your job so that you can have meaning and significance in your life. Many people look for rewards on the outside that leave their life empty because they are just things that sit there in your cabinet and do not truely satisfy what you want. You need to be able to set goals for YOURSELF and once they are reached allow that to be enough of a reward for you. Enough of a prize because you don't need a trophy, which is just an empty cup anyways, to sit up on your mantle. What significance did that really bring to your life?? Or grades, who really is satisfied by their grades? Most students have pressure from their parents to do well in school and get good grades and they are not intrinsically motivated so it creates no meaning in their lives, no satisfaction.
One thing I learned is the three things that make a good speech:
1. Brevity (keep it brief)
2. Levity (don't stress things so much that you freek out your audience)
3. Repitition (repeating things often helps people remember them better)
He also stated that if a picture is worth a thousand words, a metaphor is worth a thousand pictures. The metaphore that he gave to us was that the brain is divided into two halves. One on the right and one on the left. Both are used in all aspects of life but it is only that one side is used more than the other one in certain situations. All parts of the brain work together but, one is used more prominentally than the others in that situation.
Daniel talks about how right brainers will rule the future. That does not mean that the left brain skills will no longer be necessary, as he says, but they will no longer be sufficient. We need to develop and exercise our left brains because they have not been utilized to the best of their abilty for so long that they have almost atrophied and need to be limbered up!
He also made a great point of how Americans have gotten wealthier but have gotten no happier and are now on a search for meaning by doing things such as yoga and meditation.
Over all it was a great seminar to watch and it helped give me a brief of the book before I really dug into it and go started. It was a good summary for preparation before I read the whole book.
Daniel Pink reminds me of a deeply intelectual scientist with a great sense of humor! How many times in history has that happened I wonder??